The fall of the Silicon Knights - Too Human (Xbox 360)

[@Chas-OTE]

I'm disappointed... Matt didn't comment on that one enemy called "Groin Ripper"...

[@xtatis]

Some say mistakes are human.... One might even say "Too Human"... Yeah ok I'll see myself out

[@joeshmo3360]

This game is still free on the Xbox store along with crackdown 1 and crackdown 2

[@_shadowsaiyan99_17]

I played the shit outta this back when this came out. If i remember right, your gear can continue to scale up infinitely with each subsequent playthrough.

[@kcook9211]

Oh you can get absolutely buckwild with it

[@theonestandingsavage8319]

There is a level cap, think its 50. And the runes are capped, like exp is capped at +%15 and the sort. Played as commando, full Aesir armour built maxxed slug rifle fire rate and damage. I miss playing it online, was the best way to farm gear

[@crossbones116]

Local cyberhacker, Matt McMuscles, caught red handed playing illegal software.

[@TimGaukerToons]

It ain't illegal if Microsoft gives it away for free

[@crossbones116]

@@ezg8448 Probably a decent amount as a collector's item, and mainly for the novelty value.

[@TimGaukerToons]

@@ezg8448 Too Human is pretty cheap second hand

[@gamegod273]

I don't know why, but I really love this merge of jank and quality, it's so fucking weird. I really want you to play more Matt!

[@GentlemanOrcus1]

It reminds me of VtmB. Not in quality obv. but a bunch of nerds putting their hearts into animating jank fantasy and anime stuff

[@joshuamarks4425]

The funny part about this game being free on the Microsoft Store, is that it's likely a consequence of the Silicon Knights lawsuit against Epic that forced SK to destroy all of their copies of this game. Someone at Xbox wanted to make it backwards compatible, but they were told by Epic that they cannot do so, as long as anyone tries to profit off of it, so making it free was the compromise that no one can make any money from Too Human.

[@dekopuma]

"If Nietzsche's so great, how come he's dead?" somehow has more depth than it should.

[@AlDim000]

The death animation really isn't that bad. It's a great chance to check your email, do some stretching, go to the bathroom, post something on social media while taking a dump. You know, the game is just giving you an opportunity to take a break from itself cause it knows you need it. In all seriousness, I've played through this thing quite a few times and I actually found it quite enjoyable. As imperfect as it is, the combat can be a lot of fun with the right build.

[@bonorbitz]

I have to admit there was something about gliding around and slashing enemies with the R stick that was oddly satisfying to me.

[@Kalekemo]

I remember loving this game when it came out and being really disappointed when the sequel would never come out

[@VideoJunkie91]

I was not expecting Female Noob Saibot in the first 2 minutes

[@GentlemanOrcus1]

It's like someone made a submarine out of metal, and the metal submarine worked perfectly fine and became the norm, but then someone said "let's make one out of bread" - Yahtzee on right analogue stick combat

[@KeavyGoesLive]

Fun Fact: Borderlands successfully did what Too Human tried to do; being a four-person team-based local and online loot-based Diablo-style RPG. Too Human could have been good...had it not been helmed by a man who kept delaying and changing shit so no one could really progress on the game. Also, that game has broken achievements and they work or they don't and if they don't you're fucked.

[@Gorvar100]

Nietzsche is the most over quoted guy ever. THERE! I SAID IT!

[@rodrolliv]

That particular quote was at the beginning of the first Baldur's Gate too.

[@QuintanaDS]

Honestly, I imagine he would agree.

[@nicholasmorgan7609]

Wasn't there a Nietzsche quote at the beginning of Eternal Darkness as well? Been a while since I played that.

[@Gorvar100]

@@nicholasmorgan7609 Conan to, the Arnie one.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Why is it that the playable character is BALDUR, the bitchboi of the Aesir who’s best known for his mommy going around to every substance on Earth, and asking them to be extra-special-nice to him?

[@sheahi]

The berserker class in this game is so much fun.

[@MasoTrumoi]

This game can be fun?

[@xarrik]

@@MasoTrumoi actually yes from someone whose played it all the way through it can, the gameplay has flaws but thats what happens when a company feels threatened by your game and pulls the entire engine out from under you. Silicon Knights had said when all this was going on that combat would've been more interesting and more polished had they not had to transfer to an engine that wasn't able to properly handle their ideas for combat fully and so combat was scaled back to what your seeing. If he hasn't already done one on Too Human it'd make for an amazing what happen.

[@QPolaris]

@@xarrik He has done a Wha Happun? on Too Human. I'd suggest watching it and reevaluating whether listening to Silicon Knights about what happened 100% is the way to go...

[@xarrik]

@@QPolaris listening to epics side isn't much better.

[@falguard]

Ah yes, all the greatest warriors: the CHFMCIAt, ∞MFM+∞MR, BMRSMR

[@synchronizedelbow5702]

Those pickup names... "Willful Assault Carapace of Blight" "Willful Reenforced Glove of Ventilation" ... just precious.

[@steve43ful]

Cliffy B: “Imma end this man’s whole career.”

[@happyidiotic]

Hey the plottwist at the end of the game is wild, also i felt like sliding from one enemy to another was super satisfying

[@Mextlatec]

I wish we could have gotten the trilogy

[@str8apem88]

Why? The game is garbage, man.

[@Biibop-cd3mh]

Only give it a go if you are okay with torturing yourself. The combat doesn't get any more complex that that. I remember dying what felt like 50 times on a platform on a second mission because there were way too many turret-y enemies or something like that. The story is not worth slogging through the Valkyrie death-cutscene-punishments.

[@NeptunePirate]

I had 250+ hours logged into this game. It was so bad, but I loved every second of it.

[@toxicavenger6172]

I swear it was like every Microsoft Xbox 360 exclusive was an attempt to create a franchise.

[@fearthepointman3134]

Except Tenchu Z, they wanted to probably continue the franchise.

[@nicholasmorgan7609]

Being able to read and spell things properly in runes, seeing how the classes were spelled hurt. Runes are supposed to be used phonetically.

[@yuoma]

I loved the hell out of this game.

[@SenHai]

I played this game so much. I liked the gear system. Combat was trash, I don't know why I put up with it. Must be because I was young

[@GenerationWest]

I saw some of the cutscenes for a video, and all the X-Play coverage hyping it up for months, or years, maybe I completely forgot about this mess, besides a somewhat interesting Cyber-Norse setting and Steve Blum and Crispin Freeman casting... But what a nothing game from a fallen company, OH GOD, they also did X-Men: Destiny too, a literal death nail, Jesus Christ.

[@5TailFox]

Wasn't there a Jet Li game that did a similar thing with the analog stick being how you do attacks?

[@Sonofholhorse]

I will forever love this game. It has a really unique flow to the combat and you can really tweak your character to the nth degree once you start really speccing out gear and charms. It's also one of the only games that I can remember where you could actually play with the devs on a weekly basis, and the community was actually really cool about helping you reach gear or test builds that you wanted to. RIP SK, your ambitions and dreams were too pure for this world ;_; Thanks again to Purple Gryphon and the rest of the SK community for all of their dedication back in the day.

[@hieunguyenrileygekko]

2008 PS3: i have Metal Gear Solid 4, Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet What about you ? Xbox 360: I have Gears of War 2 and uh ...

[@ARCWuLF]

My biggest complaint about this game is that leveling up your character is entirely superfluous; every time you level up, the enemies level up too, meaning that gaining experience forces you to equip new items and literally does nothing to benefit you in any tangible way. This game would be (marginally) more fun if you could EVENTUALLY just slice through the chaff like a hot knife through butter, but sadly it's not to be.

[@CaptainSchmuck]

Normally I say play more, but I played this on launch. You're not missing much.

[@ZecaLauletta]

The font on the menus aggravate me more than it should

[@ZecaLauletta]

@@chance8260 I'm sensing a plot to destroy the Jed... I mean, the Xbox menus

[@bonorbitz]

Good ol' fashioned helvetica or arial that lacks personality and character!

[@Mellorolo]

Thank you for your gaming knowledge on tactile feeling for button mashing. I know it doesn't get the clicks but whenever you get into your testing terminology it's appreciated.

[@TheBow2dan]

This is one of those games that in my head when i think back to it it was great, but then i start to remember the gameplay and horrible combat when I actually see it being played. Game had a cool concept but just wasn't as good as it could have been.

[@jayfireninja3640]

ain't that the truth, i'm playing it right now and i don,t have long i can last

[@jayfireninja3640]

ain't that the truth, i'm playing it right now and i don,t have long i can last

[@theangriestpigeon4403]

I see a lot of people say that the aesthetics are cool. … A-are you sure? To me it looks like cybernetic vomit on poorly translated Norse Myth. That and the colors are so drab that the only thing of note is the Valkyrie cause she has actual brightness that isn't a dark blue. A dark blue that goes alongside all the other dark colors.

[@MrGonzo500]

full too human playthrough, i demand it

[@torgogorgo1888]

My buddy was so hyped for this game that he picked me up and took him to go get the game on release day. Came home, he played the first level and it seemed really boring to me, at the end he was still excited and asked if I wanted to play from the start on my own save file...I had to very politely decline.

[@KaptinScuzgob]

"Threat of Bad Eternal Darkness Sequel" still haunts my dreams

[@Nelkhael1]

I loved the whole "cyberpunk meets Norse gods" concept, but that was the only good thing this game had. Controls were awful and, don't get me started on that goddamn, long as hell Valkyrie animation when you die.

[@ManinTidyWhities]

What an appropriate time to release this video during Epic Games' "crusade" against Apple and Google, considering that Silicon was defunct after Epic sued them and won

[@Simpin4Mal]

I love love love the combat system in Too Human. I would kill to see something similar in a game that's not so janky 😭

[@Serendite]

I actually replayed this game recently and...I still enjoyed it despite its flaws. Still have my physical copy and everything

[@BadlyPlaying]

I beat this. Probably my rarest xbox achievement

[@CHEESENSPIEL]

14:49 erm...why are there enemies called Groin Rippers? maybe it's explained in the lore somewhere

[@caolan1083]

Play more of this and I will subscribe.

[@MattMcMuscles]

I'd rather not.

[@caolan1083]

@@MattMcMuscles I'm holding my sub button hostage.

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

Knowing that a lot of copies of this game had to be destroyed the remaining copies have to be lost relics at this point.

[@coopercurtis8502]

You got further in this than I did in my playthrough from two weeks or so ago. I kept expecting that intro in the bar to transition into gameplay and it just never did. P.S. Love ya, Matt. P.P.S. Crackdown 1 and 2 are also free and those games are killer

[@homasexualbatman]

I rented this back in like 2009 and my god this game still takes the award for worst fucking controls i have ever had the unfortunate pleasure using.

[@zttev]

"Flows like a river of bricks" was putting it charitably. Holy hell, I assume that the Valkyrie bit was meant to encourage you to get good and avoid dying or maybe pay off later in the story but I never though I'd get so angry at infinite free lives.

[@hobbitninja]

The idea of the setting is pretty cool

[@jrad9884]

I played this game so much when I was younger, I loved it then.

[@ashleyking8851]

some call me the silicon knight, its not my proudest title

[@KomradeDubbers]

I gotta play this one soon

[@dc4296]

I thought this game was gonna be the 360's Quake (judging by the cover)

[@deathgoddragon3698]

Speaking of KOTOR era Bioware, maybe do Jade Empire? That was an X-box game that recently got released on Steam.

[@KingClockwork]

I'm proud to admit that I have still have a physical copy of this game.

[@benmanperelsztein]

i loved this game as a kid honestly and played it though way too many times

[@MissinHunter]

I fucking loved the aesthetic of this game. The futuristic theme mixed with Norse mythology was just amazing. Gameplay not as much but damn I wish the series could make a comeback.

[@OverEmotionalGamer]

I dug up my original thoughts from finishing the game for you Matt

[@moonboy9008]

So, my best mate had a copy of this game on the 360 and one day while he was playing it his Xbox caught fire. He was able to recover the disc before the Xbox stoped working completely. Fast forward a few years and I borrowed the game from him to see if it was as cursed as he claimed. My Xbox overheated 3 times while playing this game and crashed often. I somehow managed to finish the game against everyone's better judgement (including my own) and afterwards we destroyed the disc.

[@MrGruntles]

15:14 terrible prompt-less mechanic but now I imagine Matt pitches himself towards whatever direction he falls in real life.

[@jaimetamayo8881]

That Geras on the thumbnail and Noob saibot on the intro

[@mayonaise000]

Please please please try jet li rise to honor. It does control stick combat way better and it feels so much cooler

[@MattMcMuscles]

Search the channel

[@theonestandingsavage8319]

I actually liked the game. It was a little hard with the controls, but once I found how deep the player customisation is, for builds anyway, I had to keep playing. I even got to the point where I would farm world serpent 3-4 after doing grendels loot glitch. I would literally sit and farm for hours with a friend of mine, I was commando and he was berserker. Got to the point where I was even farming and building Aesir(orange color) armor, outside of my characters epic(red color) armor

[@mikew735]

I loved this game.

[@MrFutago87]

This premise could have made for an awesome game in the hands of a developer who knew what they were doing. Especially nowadays with the better tech.

[@freekieleekie9353]

I like this game lmao. I would always try to get the coolest colors for my armor 😂

[@idontcare3315]

9:41 [Perfect weapon flashbacks intensifies] Awooooo No Way No way Awooooo

[@knightowl1985]

I would like to see more Path of Neo.

[@gronzen5451]

There really isn't any reason to do the sword drag except 'there's girls watching,' is there?

[@sledgechesterfield3645]

You missed out the ballistic spider guy owns

[@washoywa]

I love this game, when it flows you can grind gear chilling with the dual stick combat and lose track of time easylee

[@JamesW609]

I’ve played and beat this game on my uncles Xbox I don’t remember anything except how odd guns sounded to me lol

[@smashbreault4051]

And now some of the devs of this games are my college professors

[@OverEmotionalGamer]

I legit don't remember any of this. I remember being booted in on a space ship with a bunch of marines and stuff and having no context for anything, and I did the unthinkable I actually finished the game.

[@swiftxmiles]

Man.... people were right when they said stick with Nintendo...

[@grxzzly94]

I bought this used when it first came out for $20 at a Walmart makeshift GameStop....it was pretty fun , good thing I was 14, couldn’t imagine being an adult buying this 🤣💀

[@Dann_XP]

Matt McMuscles I'd like to request you play the first Lost Planet with the GI Joe movies Storm Shadow starring as the freaking protagonist, please. Thanking you's!

[@NinAmuro57]

14:53 best enemy name

[@UnknownZealot77]

Full LP when?

[@mando.mp33]

This game came out the year I was born Ik I’m young but at least I have a good taste in content

[@g0ddish434]

I kind of wanted to see how Too Human would look with Motion controls of the Wii.

[@BelartWright]

I tried my best to like this game because I like SK and there was some really cool stuff in it, but the jank was too strong for this one.

[@BelartWright]

13:58 - This is what really kills the game for me. Valkyrie animation is obnoxious and you tend to die a lot.

[@usedforks]

Every time I see the title card I think it says Tod Human

[@MontaguStudios]

Despite the janky frame rate and outdated gameplay, Too Human still looks decent to this day. Unreal Engine is a powerful tool and I want to believe Silicon Knights didn't know how to utilize it to its fullest potential. I mean, BioShock came out a year before and it was a spectacular game from top to bottom. Game Designer Denis Dyack clearly has issues with game engines. His current game, Deadhaus Sonata, has switched game engines 3 times; first Amazon Lumberyard, then O3DE, and now Unity. That says it all.

[@pockkennedy3202]

Human, too human.

[@pyroronnie2473]

I actually enjoyed this game. Unfortunately my game didnt load past the first level 😭

[@WingNutZ100]

I remember being so hyped for this game! It's concepts etc. Then it died :(

[@jasonmahoney3392]

I am probably the only person who loved this game.

[@TheBeird]

I shit you not, I bought this for a friend and the day we finally checked it out together, two hours into the session, his Xbox 360 spat out the disc. Crashed, was making a noise, and when he opened the disc tray, the fucking game leapt out. We didn't play it again

[@dectilon]

I'm *kind* of interested to see where this could possibly go, as dull as it seems to play.

[@insanelol]

I played this so fucking much back then. I really wish it had a chance to be great but it wasn't meant to be.

[@HereIam123]

I finished this game yesterday, after meaning to beat it back in the day. What a boring slog within a somewhat interesting universe. I want a sequel.

[@SweeploRoblo]

1:55 To shreds you say?

[@OmegaUberDeathbot]

How the hell did you find a copy of this?

[@CrankyMoogle]

It's currently being offered for free on the Xbox Live marketplace.

[@WolfbytesIT]

That's a video game for sure

[@loganw8973]

We need more